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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managed and led a team of cyber security professionals, oversaw their engagement with various stakeholders and ensured effective collaboration with various departments, and risk owners.Articulated risks to information systems, information technology processes and procedures. Provided expert advice to risk owners based on the identified scope of work and secured the risk owners’ buy-in to resolve process, systems and people gaps. Ensured that the scope of work was met and escalated as necessary.Ensured compliance was adequate and ran effectively and efficiently.Collaborated with functional teams to analyse industry and business-related trends that posed potential business risks to the Organization and escalate to the Organization's vendor where necessary.Provided support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within the organisation and simulated attacks to ascertain the level of understanding and compliance.Identified resource, process and systems gaps that might jeopardise compliance or successful business outcomes, escalated to the appropriate team and followed up to closure.Reported risk in an appropriate way to the risk owners and other relevant stakeholders to enable management to make relevant decisions, business heads to enforce management decisions and individuals to understand their accountability for individual risks.

United Kingdom

I provided students with contemporary learning that is underpinned and informed by research, knowledge exchange through effective collaboration, assessment and current industry practice.

Nigeria And African Subsidiaries

Facilitated compliance with policies, procedures and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard best practices.Collaborated with information technology staff to design and implement a disaster recovery plan for operating systems, databases, networks, servers, and software applications with an emphasis on security.Participated in enterprise-wide Information security behaviour and anti-phishing campaigns to prevent exploiting the Bank’s information systems through the weakest defence mechanism - employees.Developed key performance indicators for measuring the performance of information security tools and processes.Supervised all investigations into anomalous activity and provided ongoing communication with senior management.Routinely performed risk and control self-assessments (RCSA) at the Bank’s head office in Nigeria and its subsidiaries in twenty African countries covering the solution design, implementation and operation of the enterprise business systems to ensure that key risk items were identified and appropriate controls recommended and implemented in line with leading practice.Conducted third-party due diligence on Organizations before involving them in a business relationship with the Bank to ensure that high-risk Organizations are not onboarded into the Bank’s group domain.Ensured systems security and integrity of the bank’s IT assets comply with ISO 27001:2013 and PCI-DSS security frameworks.Performed routine vulnerability assessments and coordinated the resolution of identified risks or issues with the relevant parties.Worked closely with the SOC analysts in day-to-day SOC operations and SIEM oversight.Attended weekly Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)sessions as required.

Head Office Nigeria

Monitored and analysed security logs and events using specialized SOC tools such as Portnox NAC, ArcSight SIEM, FireEye APT system, Cymulate antiphishing, Azure suite etc to to identify and address security incidents.Collaborated closely with the IT team to examine and resolve security breaches or incidents.Supervised and upheld security systems, encompassing firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software, vulnerability scanner, and NAC.Attended weekly Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions as requiredConducted an in-depth analysis of security data and logs to identify patterns, trends, and potential security risks.Managed the rollout, setup, and ongoing support for Portnox NAC. Successfully ensured that detailed reports on security incidents, vulnerabilities, and the overall security posture were available for presentation to the IT Steering Committee.Successfully contributed to the improvement of the organization's security posture, procedures, and technologies based on insights gained from security incidents, lessons learned, and industry best practices.

Lagos, Nigeria

Responded to trouble tickets generated by the incident management system on a time scale and updated the users on the status of the open ticket and action taken to resolve the issue.Supervised vendors’ activities in the implementation of systems hardware, maintenance and upgrade; deployment and commissioning of network solutions.Configured computing systems and on-boarding for new staff ensuring new staff are fully situated.Maintained operational baseline for systems, applications and software used on the Bank's network.Ensured adherence to network security policy and procedures of UBA.Oversaw the activities of the team members in my unit and provided necessary technical support, coached and mentored them.Carried out scheduled preventive maintenance exercises.LAN design, configuration, setup and maintenance.Configured, deployed and managed network routers and switches.PC and server setup, upgrade and maintenance.

Lagos, Nigeria

As the Head of Enterprise Solution, I led complex engineering projects using my engineering expertise to drive projects through the entire life cycle. I also used my excellent interpersonal skills in providing sales advice and support.

Lagos, Nigeria

I worked in a team of six staff in the configuration, installation and commissioning of Motorola microwave systems for Balton (Dizengoff) clients at various locations in Nigeria. We also performed a post-implementation audit of the sites commissioned by the Organization's contractors.

Lagos, Nigeria

I provided support to the network engineers and system administrators in implementing upgrades and changes across DCC’s Service Provisioning Infrastructure (Network). The infrastructure includes the Gilat Hub, Cisco Routers / Switches, the end-user VSAT terminals and CPEs.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity, Distinction

Beng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering